State and explain Gauss's law in electrostatics. What is its significance?
State and explain Gauss's law in electrostatics. What is its significance?
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The fundamental relationship between the resulting electric field and electric charge distribution is given by Gauss's law.
It states that the total electric flux (? E) passing through any closed hypothetical surface (called a Gaussian surface) is equal to 1/?0 times the net electric charge (q enc ) enclosed within that surface.
When dealing with charge distributions that possess a high degree of symmetry such as planar, cylindrical, and spherical, Gauss's law significance lies in providing a powerful alternative method to Coulomb's law for calculating electric fields.
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